Wove Quotes
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For in the days we know not of Did fate begin Weaving the web of days that wove Your doom.
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More Wove Quotes
We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age Are they withered in the sod?
charlotte brontë— 1835 'We Wove a Web in Childhood'.
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
robert f. kennedy— "Value of Dissent" speech Nashville, Tennessee (21 March 1968)
The cosmos which he now created was that which contains the readers and the writer of this book. In its making he used, but with more cunning art, many of the principles which had already served him in earlier creations; and he wove them together to form a more subtle and more capricious unity than ever before.
Olaf Stapledon— Ch. XV The Maker and His Works, 3. Mature Creating
For Khalil Gibran no single religious tradition revealed the whole truth about life so he wove together insights from Eastern Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, American Transcendentalism, and the folklore of his native Lebanon to create his own universal "Anthem of Humanity" ... he attacks narrow-mindedness, clerical hypocrisy and political injustice, and issues a declaration of faith in life itself.
khalil gibran— Editorial synopsis on the back jacket of the Penguin edition of The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994) as translated by Juan R. I. Cole
I only saw her as she pass'd A great, sad beauty, in whose eyes Lay all the loves of Paradise. . . . You shall not know her she who sat Unconscious in my heart all time I dream'd and wove this wayward rhyme, And loved and did not blush thereat.
joaquin miller— IV, p. 25. (The Ship in the Desert (1875))
Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright As in that well-remember'd night When first thy mystic braid was wove, And first my Agnes whisper'd love.
walter scott— To a Lock of Hair.
Mightily wove they / the web of fate, / While Bralund's towns / were trembling all; / And there the golden / threads they wove, / And in the moon's hall / fast they made them.
— Helgakviða Hundingsbana I, Poetic Edda. Quoted in The First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane in translation by Henry Adams Bellows (1936), at Sacred Texts.
The gold-barr'd butterflies to and fro And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.
joaquin miller— Joaquin Miller, Songs of the Sun-Lands, Isles of the Amazons, Part III, Stanza 41.
And the great elms o'erhead Dark shadows wove on their aërial looms, Shot through with golden thread.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hawthorne, Stanza 2, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 219.
The Wreath's of brightest myrtle wove With brilliant tears of bliss among it, And many a rose leaf cull'd by Love To heal his lips when bees have stung it.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, The Wreath and the Chain.
With roses musky-breathed, And drooping daffodilly, And silver-leaved lily. And ivy darkly-wreathed, I wove a crown before her, For her I love so dearly.
— Alfred Tennyson, Anacreontics.
They wove the lotus band to deck And fan with pensile wreath their neck.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Odes of Anacreon, Ode LXX.
A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!
richard henry stoddard— Richard Henry Stoddard, Hymn to the Beautiful, Stanza 4
